Friday, July 29, 2016

FBI warned Hillary campaign last March that its computers weren't secure, met at her Brooklyn headquarters, no specific identity of threat was suggested. Raises question of why Hillary campaign didn't take matter more seriously. China said to have hacked both Obama and McCain computers in 2008. NASA computers were hacked 13 times in 2011 alone

But the campaign, through its
lawyers, declined to provide the data, deciding that the FBI’s request
for sensitive personal and campaign information data was too broad and
intrusive, the source said.

A
second source who had been briefed on the matter and who confirmed the
Brooklyn meeting said agents provided no specific information to the
campaign about the identity of the cyberhackers or whether they were
associated with a foreign government. The source said the campaign was
already aware of attempts to penetrate its computers and had taken steps
to thwart them, emphasizing that there is still no evidence that the
campaign’s computers had actually been successfully penetrated.

But
the potential that the intruders were associated with a foreign
government should have come as no surprise to the Clinton campaign, said
several sources knowledgeable about the investigation.Chinese
intelligence hackerswere widely reported to have penetrated both the
campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain in 2008.

By mid-May, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was telling reporters that US. Intelligence officials “already had some indications” of hacks into political campaigns that were likely linked to foreign governments and that “we’ll probably have more.”

The
FBI’s request to turn over internal computer logs and personal email
information came at an awkward moment for the Clinton campaign, said the
source, familiar with the campaign’s internal deliberations. At the
time, the FBI was still actively and aggressively conducting a criminal
investigation into whether Clinton had compromised national security
secrets by sending classified emails through a private computer server
in the basement of her home in Chappaqua, N.Y. There were already press
reports, to date unconfirmed, that the investigation might have expanded
to include dealings relating to the Clinton Foundation. Campaign
officials had reason to fear that any production of campaign computer
logs and personal email accounts could be used to further such a probe.
At the Brooklyn meeting, FBI agents emphasized that the request for data
was unrelated to the separate probe into Clinton’s email server. But
after deliberating about the bureau’s request, and in light of the lack
of details provided by the FBI and the absence of a subpoena, the
Clinton campaign chose to turn down the bureau’s request, the source
said."